From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 18: 6: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EDBA37B423; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:06:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1016) id F27B29B05; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:06:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22A8BA03; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:06:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:06:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: cdf.lists@pawn.primelocation.net To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libpng.so.3 not found In-Reply-To: <20000823192737.A31912@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, David J. Kanter wrote: > I updated my png port to 1.0.8 and when I started X (WindowMaker) got this > error: > > "/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpng.so.3" not found. > > And then I'm booted out of X. > > To fix this, I created a file, /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.3, that's a symbolic > link to libpng.so.4, which came with the new port (the old port did have > libpng.so.3). > > This seems like a cheap fix. What's the right way? > Since the libpng version was bumped, it would be best to recompile anything that is linked to the old libpng. Alternatively, you could reinstall the older version of libpng. ----- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message